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Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Gift Love Poet Poor Words
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fall In Love Idle Person
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.
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Adore Delight Fools Fuel See
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Freedom Inspirational Kindness Mind
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Delight Refuse Same Women
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Dignity Love Share
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace

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